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Mary A. Bomar New NPS Director
On October 17, Mary A. Bomar was sworn in as the seventeenth director of the National Park Service. She replaces Fran Mainella, who announced her resignation this past July. From 2003 to 2005, Bomar served as superintendent of Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia. During her tenure, both the Liberty Bell Center and the National Constitution Center opened in the park on Independence Mall as part of the largest urban revitalization project in the nation. Also during her tenure, the NPS reopened the park’s Second Bank of the United States after a two-year utilities project and installed a new exhibit, “The People of Independence.” Previously, Bomar served as the first superintendent at the Oklahoma City National Memorial, the first NPS Oklahoma State Coordinator, acting superintendent at Rocky Mountain National Park and assistant superintendent at the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.
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